Devouring World Dragon

Chapter 243 The Son of the Stars
In the year 2457 of the old earth calendar and 4 years of the human calendar, the legendary colonial spaceship "Far Traveler" has gone away, and it will arrive at the target planet, the ideal blue planet in 140 years.

But for humans still staying in the solar system, the story is far from over.

After that short-lived but far-reaching human union, within a hundred years, a generation shaped by suffering died, the voice of longing for peace and reason disappeared, and the wave of division of the new generation began to surge again.

As the girl a hundred years ago sighed:
"What's the point of everything we do now? What's the point of our existence in this universe? What's the point of such an endless war? What this kind of spiral will bring us is only infinite pain and final destruction, right? .”

In the asteroid belt of the Kuiper belt in the solar system, countless space pirates, mining companies, and careerists gather in this chaotic world. This is a disorderly world without constraints and a paradise for crimes.

In the 176th year of the birth of the human union and the 178th year of the human calendar, a new separatist force was first born. This force, which claims to be the asteroid protector, took advantage of the huge advantages brought by the asteroid belt, and fought with the fleets of the human union. .

After a lapse of 200 years, human beings once again confronted their own compatriots with swords.

Those warriors with peace and ideals may have been scholars, artists, and explorers of outer space, but now their swords are slashing at the compatriots they swore to protect.

"What never changes? Huh, the fucking war."

In the unprecedented battle that broke out at the KB-769 asteroid, facing the hundreds of millions of warships scattered in space, the fleet commander held his white military cap and laughed at himself.

The human union collapsed, but not because of the war, but because of the usurpation of the army.

Those who gather because of profit will surely disperse because of profit; those who gather because of righteousness will definitely disperse because of righteousness.

The irony is that the human union born for the concept of peace eventually collapsed because of the usurpation of the army, because the army no longer wants to stick to peace under the old framework, and they need to unify the entire human being, no matter what the price is.

An era known as the "Great Crash" began.

On the wreckage of the human union, various separatist forces have formed. The former human united army—the overlord has occupied the earth, and many space habitats and planetary settlements have become the sites of these separatist forces. In this way, the melee continued for more than 200 years.

Until a ghost ship from the old days reappears...

……

In 428 years of the human calendar, an unknown signal appeared in the outer reaches of the solar system.

"What the hell is this? It looks like a signal from some old antique? An old-time unmanned machine?"

Sensing the signal received by the processor in his brain, the miner who was commanding an unmanned mining machine on an asteroid was a little confused. A strange signal came from a distance of 7.6 light minutes from him.

Unlike the subspace communication that is popular now, this signal uses a very old quantum communication
But soon he was no longer confused.

A strange spaceship appeared in front of him. It was different from the materials of spaceships commonly used in the solar system. This spaceship... didn't look like a spaceship, because many parts of it were not matter at all.

After entering the space age, metals were officially eliminated, and humans began to use various topological materials. These topological materials that exhibit various strange properties at the quantum level have become the new favorites of human beings.Compared with those metals that only have extremely high strength and performance in three-dimensional space, these substances with eleven-dimensional structure on the quantum level are more weird and can withstand all kinds of weird requirements of the space age.

But any kind of topological matter cannot compare with the weird spaceship in front of us...

Many parts of it are not matter, but the force and wave excited by the position generator.Rather than saying that this is a spaceship, it is better to say that this is a position generator moving in space. Its almost transparent frame can even allow miners to see the internal structure, see the strange devices of different sizes inside, and the seemingly suspended space. bright-eyed, confident little girl.

The spaceship is like a big toy with only a little bit of internal structure done, and then the rest is rendered with lighting effects.

But the powerful distortion of the space-time structure caused by it, just look at the strange light that travels beside the spacecraft to understand that this spacecraft is not as fragile as it seems.

"The First Fleet Scout Aircraft of the First Distant Star District of the Human Consortium Greetings to you, citizen, please help me contact the nearest administrative agency of the Human Consortium, and I will bring the sincerity of the first distant star district of the Human Consortium greeting."

The little girl raised her hand, saluting with an old-time human union military salute, and said in a childish voice that seemed serious.

miner:……? ? ?
And after a moment of communication.

"Huh? The Consortium of People is disbanded?!!(#°Д°)"

……

On that day, a sensational news spread throughout the solar system. More than 400 years ago, the legendary colonial spaceship "Far Traveler" that colonized the planet Ross 11b 128 light-years away, and now their fleet has returned.

According to this fleet, it took the far traveler 145 years to arrive at the planet Ross 128b, and named it "Hope" according to the prior preparation.

It is indeed a very suitable planet for human habitation, but it is also very dangerous. The many strange animals and plants made the first batch of colonists very embarrassed.After 200 fertilized eggs developed into embryos, it took the colonists more than [-] years to finally gain a foothold on that planet.

At the same time, they also got a lot of inspiration from those exotic animals and plants.

Compared with the humans in the solar system, the colonists are far behind in many technologies such as communication and combat, but the speed of their spaceships completely explodes the humans in the solar system.

The speed of a spacecraft that used to be 7% of the speed of light is already the ultimate speed of a human spacecraft. It is believed that only the "far traveler" who can accelerate unlimitedly in the void can do it. Today, the vast majority of human spacecraft in the solar system are only 2 % around the speed of light.But now, the speed of human warships on Star Hope can easily reach 20% of the speed of light, and even 30% of the speed of light in extreme cases.

Because of this, after gaining a firm foothold, Hope Star dispatched a huge fleet non-stop, hoping to conduct trade with the human union.

After knowing the news of the collapse of the human union, the Hope Star Fleet staying in the outer reaches of the solar system finally decided not to enter the solar system and only conduct conservative trade to avoid conflicts with various separatist forces.

A livable planet that has not yet been fully developed!

The human beings trapped in the solar system seem to see new hope. Under the surging dark tide, the human beings who have been fighting each other for more than two hundred years finally remembered the call from space again.

But on the other side...

In a secret room, the Commander of the Hope Star Fleet, who was famous in the solar system at the moment, was sitting in front of him, silently looking at the old man in front of him.

Although the old man is old, over a hundred years old, no one dares to underestimate his authority.As the leader of the former human union army, in this world, there are no more powerful people than him.

Two people who seem to have nothing to do with each other secretly meet in this secret room at this moment, which is absolutely beyond everyone's imagination.

The old man looked at the young commander in front of him, and the young commander also looked at the old man in front of him, and the two sides sized each other up.

Suddenly, the old man was chanting in a low voice, and he was chanting the old human language commonly used in the era of the human union.

"The gods are happy, the gods are happy..."

"You are the one who knows the destiny, you are the one who sees the secret..."

The young commander picked it up, and it was the same language. Although some pronunciations and intonations were different, the charm was exactly the same.

"You need to remember..."

Looking at the young commander in front of him, the old man paused, and then the old man and the young commander recited the same passage together.

"Things that cannot be said or spoken, voices that cannot be heard or heard, appearances that cannot be seen or seen..."

"On Hope Star, how many people still know the secret."

"Very few, only 30 people including me."

The young commander lowered his head and said in a deep voice.

The old man was silent, then murmured.

"Time... has changed too many things. The ancestor designed and built the Far Traveler. He knew that he could not wait for you, so he asked his descendants to wait for you. My great-great-grandfather waited all his life, but he didn't; I My great-grandfather waited all his life, but didn't get it; my grandfather also waited all his life, but he didn't get it until he died; and my father, before he died, he held my hand tightly and looked at me closely, although he didn't say it clearly , but I know what he wants to say."

"I thought that I might not be able to wait, but I didn't expect that I would wait for you when I was a bone."

The young commander was silent, he didn't know what to say.

Looking at the silence of the young commander, the old man shook his head.

"Since you have already taken root and sprouted in the distance, maybe it's time to do some things that have been decided a long time ago..."

……

In the 435th year of the human calendar, seven years after the Hope Starfleet left, the first star-destroying weapon manufactured by humans in the solar system was born, and its target was... the earth.

On the spaceship, the old man opened his eyes wide, staring at the planet in front of him that was about to be destroyed by his own orders, the hometown of mankind.

There are more than 1000 billion human beings living there, and it is the core and most important place of the Overlord.

But the old man understood that even if this planet was destined to be destroyed from the very beginning, it must be destroyed. The whole meaning of the birth of the overlord was not to occupy this planet, but to destroy it better in the distant future.

But wanting to destroy this planet means that the entire solar system will be affected. Even Mars is uncertain whether it will be able to live in the future, so humans must go to outer galaxies...

In the 400 years since the birth of the human union, and in the 2000 years since 900 AD, the ultimate goal that has been passed down from generation to generation in the hearts of the masters of the monastery has always been the same. For this goal...

"Even at all costs..."

That year, when his father passed away, he held his hand tightly, staring at him tightly with his old eyes, and there was only sternness in his eyes.

Father didn't say anything, but he knew everything.

There is no way to conduct a large-scale evacuation operation. The more people who know about it, the greater the risk of being infected and eroded, and no one knows when the planet will wake up, so it can only be "at all costs."

In the face of antimatter ammunition weighing 8000 million tons, even the earth cannot resist the huge energy release exceeding 1e^32J. The crust with a thickness of more than 17 kilometers was roughly torn open, and the hot core inside was exposed. A strong gravitational wave vibration can still be clearly felt even in space hundreds of millions of miles away.

The spaceship was shaking, and some people's faces changed.

There are too many scattered planet fragments, and no one knows if a fragment will fly over in the next moment.On other planets, this shock has also formed earthquakes of different sizes.

At this moment, even the residents living on Mars can easily see the thrown matter in the sky.

The fiery liquid metal core that has been stripped of its appearance is like a water polo in a violent shock, torn apart by the explosion, twisted weirdly, and finally dissociated into several parts, quietly suspended in the air, waiting for an unknown number of years after cooling.

No one will be able to hear the voices on Earth, but everyone will be terrified at the presence of such a terrifying force that they have never seen before.

But the old man couldn't feel this kind of fear, all he could feel was exhaustion and relief, and the hands that were tightly clenched were now loosened.

It was too long, and the fate of dozens of generations finally came to an end in his hands.

"Master, we have received news that other people from the overlord are ready to arrest you."

Behind him was a humane man in a gray robe.

"I know."

"Then do you want to..."

"It's not necessary."

The man in gray robe behind him was about to say something, but the old man just replied lightly.

It is no longer necessary.

"The mission of the Priory has come to an end, and we no longer have the meaning of existence."

He spoke calmly.

Outside the spaceship, it was vaguely possible that a group of spaceships were firmly surrounding him, and a high-power gravity trap had been deployed to prevent him from escaping.

He knew what was about to greet him, and destroying the earth with his own hands meant that the foundation of the overlord's existence was almost uprooted. Those people were naturally furious, but isn't that the meaning of the overlord's existence?

"My death is justified, but my death will allow human beings to completely get rid of the fear, the nightmare that has existed since the beginning of our birth. Without the earth, human beings will no longer have a home, and we will be a group of wanderers orphans, but we shall make the stars our home, and we shall trek among them."

Staring at the earth that was shattered into several pieces of wreckage, the old man's cloudy vision showed light.

"We are no longer the children of the earth, we will become the children of the stars..."

……

On the chessboard in the crystal sky, the blurred figure struggled.In the end, it resolutely transformed into a knife in its hand, and then cut off its own root attached to the chessboard in one fell swoop.

On the chessboard, the black and white chess pieces disappeared, leaving only the solitary black king and white king.It is no longer glued to the chessboard. Over the years, the chess pieces on the chessboard are no longer chess pieces, and it is free.

Floating in the crystal sky, the fuzzy figure circled a few times, and then plunged into the cosmic stars...

"This...this is..."

Looking at the newborn baby, the father's face was full of horror.

The ignorant baby closed its eyes tightly, but many lightnings wrapped around its body, making the newborn baby suspended in the air out of thin air.

……

In that year, a strange power began to appear among human beings. Some babies were born with various strange abilities, and this power was finally called "spiritual power".

(End of this chapter)